Sociological Methods & Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the field of sociology.

The journal's editor-in-chief is Felix Elwert (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

It was established in 1972 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.

Sociological Methods & Research is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 3.625, ranking it 5 out of 146 journals in the category "Sociology"[1] and 3 out of 49 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods".